Baby guard



E. H. MADERE BABY GUARD July 24, 1923.

Filed Sept. 2'7. 1922 Patented July 24, 1923.

Liens ERNEST HUBER! MADERE, or HAHNVILLE;.LOUISIANAQQASSIGNORV rofnInnvrLLE] MANUFACTURING COMPANY mm, or- NEW. ORIQEAINVSNLQUISIANAQ BABY GUARD;

Application' filed September 27, 19221 Serial No. 590,827;

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST H. MADERE, a citizen of the United States,"'residing at Hahnville, in the parish of St. Charles and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby Guards; and I do herebydeclare the follow ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the'inventio n, such as wil-lenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to improvements in devices for protecting young children against accidental injury to the head or back during that period when they are learning to sit up and are liable to fall over sideways or backwards when attempting to sit up, with possible injury to the head or back from striking the same on the floor or other platform on which they are seated.

- It is a common expedient for mothers to ut illows or cushions at the sides and ack of the child when it is learning to sit up to prevent it from injuring itself in the manner referred to; and this device is intended to do away with the need of any such additional safeguards, and is so devised that it can be transported with the child from place to place without inconvenience either to the nurse or to the child itself.

The invention is especially arranged to protect the child against falling backwards or sideways and bumping its head. In falling forwards the child will normally protect itself with its hands; moreover it is desirable to permit the child to bend over-forwards so as to enable it to crawl or squirm about in the manner peculiar to infants at the age referred to.

My invention will be more fully understood after reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are indicated by similar reference symbols throughout the several views, and in which v Figure 1 is a Perspective view showing the child in dotted lines seated on a floor, and showing the device in full lines.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the device as detached from the child; and

Figure 3 is a detail view, partly in section, showing the device as extended.

A represents a belt or band which may be made of leather or textile fabric, such as canvas, cotton-duck or the like, which is preferably wider at the center as at a, and

doubled over at its center asata to form double -thickness as at a One end is provided with a tongue of, perforated as tim 1 and theoth'er end is provided with aloop a to which is secured the buckle B;

Secured between the folds of'the double portion ofthe band arethe metal platesC, which maybe held inplace-in any'conven 1611i? way, as by meansof thej stitches-a These plates are preferably made of soft flexible metal to which are attached in any convenient way, as by soldering, the resilient legs D, which diverge outwardly and downwardly, and are preferably bent, as at d, and terminate in feet E which may be made in the form of metal balls, or preferably of rubber or other soft material to give a cushioning effect. These feet E not only serve to protect the floor or bed or other platform on which the child is seated from accidental inury, but also prevent the nurse from having her clothes torn thereby, and also serve to make the device'noiseless when used on a hard floor. It will be seen that the central leg proects rearwards and the two side legs project substantially at right angles to the central leg and cover the two sides of the child, while the band goes around the body of the child under the shoulders, and is buckled in place, as shown in Fig. 1.v It will thus be seen that when the child is sitting up, as shown in Fig. 1,'it cannot fall backwards or sideways, but it may bend forwards and crawl along on its hands and knees in the usual way. At that time the band is not in the way of the child, and the legs D project above the back of the child clear of the floor, bed or other platform on which the child is placed.

It will be seen that the device will th0r oughly protect the child against injury from falling'backwards or sideways, but will permit it to lean over forwards and crawl freely if desired.

The device may be made durable to supply adapted to go around the body of the child for all practical purposes, the number of the samemay be increased if desired; and it will be obvious-that various other modifications might be made in the herein described cdevice, and in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts which could vbe used without departing from the spirit of my invention; and I do not mean to limitthe invention to such details exceptas particularly pointed out in the claims.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States is I 1. Aprotecting guard for young children, comprising a broad flexible adjustment band back and sides of the child, with a plurality of divergent resilientlegs secured to and projecting downwards from band atthe "sides and rear-thereof;

2. A protecting guard for young children comprising a band adapted to go around the vbody of the child,,said band being doubled along its center, flexible metal plates secured between the folds of said band, divergent resilient rods secured to said plates and projecting downwards from said band, and a foot attached to the free end of each rod adapted to engage the platform on which the child may be seated, substantially as and for the purpose described.

* ERNEST iiUBERT MADERE. i 

